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  Less Islamism, More Nationalism In Iran and across the Middle East, the bond between religion and politics is getting weaker. Listen · 12:27 min 1 June 25, 2026, 5:05 p.m. ET You’re reading The World newsletter.   Your daily guide to understanding what’s happening — and why it matters. Hosted by Katrin Bennhold, for readers around the world. I’ve been intrigued to see how the war in Iran has changed the way the country’s Islamic government portrays women . State television features women’s military parades with pink guns and pink jeeps. Most notably, it features women who say they support the regime but are not wearing hijabs. In the face of attacks by outside powers, the Islamic republic is crafting a new kind of identity, one that is less about religion and more about nationalism. And that shift is emblematic of something bigger happening in the Middle East: Political Islam is waning. I spoke to my colleague Ben Hubbard about what is emerging in its place — and how Is...
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  1/3 Gli eventi bellici distruggono i laboratori (e pure gli scienziati) rallentando le scoperte guerre che uccidono anche la ricerca di Gabriella Greison U n anno fa ho seguito con apprensione una notizia che ai più è sfuggita. Due missili balistici iraniani avevano colpito il Weizmann Institute of Science, a Rehovot, 20 chilometri a sud di Tel Aviv. Uno dei più prestigiosi istituti di ricerca del mondo, fondato nel 1934, dove si studiano il cancro, le cellule staminali, la rigenerazione cardiaca, la fisica delle particelle, l’intelligenza artificiale, le neuroscienze e l’origine della vita. Non c’erano morti. E forse è stato proprio questo il motivo. Per qualche ora apparvero fotografie di laboratori distrutti, vetri esplosi, apparecchiature annerite dal fuoco. Poi il mondo passò oltre. Io no. Perché quelle immagini mi riportarono immediatamente a un’altra storia. Roma, 19 luglio 1943. Bombardamento di San Lorenzo. La Città universitaria colpita dalle bombe. Giovanni Conversi, E...
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  A.I. Riches Fuel Economic Divide in Asia’s Chip Powerhouses A.I. demand is driving stock market gains and booming exports in South Korea and Taiwan. But the rest of the economy is being left behind. Listen · 9:45 min 9 June 24, 2026 In South Korea and Taiwan, the world’s hunger for artificial intelligence has unleashed a boom unlike anything seen in years. The two economies are home to the small cluster of companies that produce the coveted chips A.I. cannot run without. As exports climb to record highs and stock markets soar, the rush to cash in has reached a fever pitch. Seniors are opening brokerage accounts to funnel their savings into semiconductor stocks. On social media, young people question the point of their jobs, saying they could earn as much — or more — trading stocks. Yet the windfall is masking a far bleaker picture across much of the rest of the economy. Industries outside chip making are struggling to navigate a turbulent landscape upended by energy and tariff sh...
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  The American Revolution Wasn’t the Main Event Americans have long imagined that they set off a global age of revolt. Seen within the era’s wider wars of empire, the story looks rather different. May 4, 2026 Since 1776, Americans have been insisting that they were the protagonists of a new world order. Yet “the sad truth of the matter,” Hannah Arendt wrote, is that, whereas France’s revolution “made world history,” America’s was “of little more than local importance.” Illustration by Ben Hickey Historians deal in secular truths. Slavery is an appropriate explanation for the Civil War; God’s will is not. Still, some occurrences are so improbable they can make it hard to believe that we’re entirely alone, that there are no fates or hobgoblins pulling the strings. Thomas Jefferson’s death is one. That Jefferson, an ailing octogenarian, should die in his bed was unsurprising. That he should die on the same day as his fellow-Founder John Adams was perhaps a tad eerie. But that both sho...
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